Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices Training Course

Background

• Focus: where does sustainable design and manufacture fit into the overall sustainability picture?
• What are the drivers for sustainability in YOUR industry/organisation? What are the barriers?
• What has your organisation done so far and why? Did it work? If not, why not?

Understanding how to move forward

• Stakeholders in sustainable design and manufacture
• Risks – organisational, technical, regulatory and market
• Understanding the synergy between design, manufacture and remanufacture

Planning change

• Appetite for change – selling the idea, getting stakeholders on board and assessing future market acceptance/demands
• Understanding the benefits – how sustainability can add value to your organisation and your products
• Sharing the vision and getting commitment/support
• Understanding risk – acknowledging that this is new ground and identifying what you don’t know you don’t know
• Planning phased implementation – disruptive change and how to manage it
• Feasibility analysis – the answer to the question “should we adopt sustainable manufacture” - might be no!

Implementing change

• Where to start – design, manufacture, remanufacture or all three?
• How to "do" sustainable design. How have others done it? What can we learn? How suitable is it for medical?
• How to implement a recovery and remanufacturing loop. What can we learn from other industries?
• What external forces exist and how do we address them?
• Where to find support and how to keep the regulators happy
• Starting small and working up – balancing risk with manageable rates of progress and measuring success
• Scaling up, managing expectations and finding the optimum rate of change
• Making the financial case – how does sustainability pay for itself?

Q&A and key takeaways